I often sympathize with the woman of Samaria and I have enough reasons to. Was she collecting water under the glare of the sun just because she hated the women or the gossip surrounding her? Was she just avoiding the insults and humiliation she had to face? Was she shunning society because society shunned her? Or was it a penance she had brought upon herself for the sins she knew no way out of? But these are not the only questions that come to mind. Why did Jesus ask the Samaritan woman to brig her husband? If He already knew her situation what was the point of even asking something she had no way of providing? Was He being cruel by bringing up her insecurities? Why in the very next line talk about everything she was ashamed off in one sentence? What I think is this however- Jesus told the woman that He was Christ. So proving that He was a prophet was never the point of the whole discussion. The point of the discussion was to show her that no matter what she did He was not shunning her for her past because He is the second chance, not to her alone but to the entire mankind.
Jesus had to uncover her deepest wounds in orderto heal them. Jesus was not addressing her when He spoke of her husband. He wasaddressing her insecurities before removing them. That's why when she went intotown could joyfully proclaim that He had told her all that she ever did. Itwasn't a statement of shame that gathered the crowd. It was her expression ofawe and her change of attitude. She no longer was the woman who avoided a crowdbecause of her insecurities. If God can accept her with her past she had noneto fear at all.
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